it should be obvious by now that throwing off the shackles of Christianity does not culminate in the gigachad, ubermensch, hyperborean warrior (or whatever cringe archetype you want), it culminates in chris chan
it’s true that every age has had profoundly mentally ill, sick and morally depraved people, but only the post-Christian age normalizes for legions of zoomers growing up online so much of what was once recognized as most characteristically sick about him not even 10 years ago
(btw not intending ubermensch to be exegetically representative of nietzsche’s actual views, only to be representative of how rw antichristians embrace the term)
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Not saying Francis has necessarily supported any of the following, but if you’re worried about the future of the Church in general as far as liberalism is concerned, take solace in the fact that the gravest evils of liberalism are already condemned infallibly by Magisterium:
So even if the Pope were to call for a different approach to, say, the sin against nature, know it is already solemnly condemned as abominable by the Third and Fourth Lateran Councils (as well as by the unbroken and constant apostolic/patristic tradition)
If a Pope were to criticize Humanae vitae on contraception, know that its teaching is already safeguarded by the universal/ordinary magisterium as well as the solemn, infallible condemnation of Pius XI in Casti connubii (as well as by the unbroken apostolic/patristic tradition)
“let’s lower the bar to exclude the virtues of faith, hope, charity, temperance, prudence, justice, and fortitude and wow look at that we have the same morality”
even if you whittle down the natural law to the reddit maxim of “don’t be an asshole” atheists are probably its most obnoxious and notorious offenders
they can’t exercise faith hope or charity because their primary object is God Himself; they can’t exercise the fullness of justice because they’re incapable of rendering to others due spiritual goods; the overwhelming vast majority proudly engage intemperate sexual acts;